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United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)

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The Long Island City Post Office is a historic post office building located at Long Island City in Queens County, New York, United States. It was built in 1928, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under director James A. Wetmore. The building is a two-story, symmetrically massed brick building with limestone trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a frontispiece with four semi-engaged limestone Ionic order columns that support a pedimented entablature.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)
21st Street, New York Queens

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21st Street
11101 New York, Queens
New York, United States
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